A good lookin' Dash9 in Heritage I colors with the appealing wagon wheel logo leads a warbonnet SD75M at the point of a westbound manifest along BNSF's Sandhills Sub in west central Nebraska.
Once upon a time, Powder River coal business exceeded capacity and both BNSF and UP struggled to keep up with the volume. That was then, and BNSF is still adding to the substantial fleet of SD70MA... (more)
BNSF 6312 & 5959 eastbound with a loaded coal train.
BNSF 6312 & 5959 are eastbound with a loaded coal train east of Whitman.
A pair of CSX motors parked west of Whitman with an empty coal train on BNSF's Sandhills Sub.
Two SD70ACe's lead one of the few trains moving on the Sandhills subdivision on the 21st.
A pair of EMDs wait along Hwy 2 to proceed east.
According to the dispatcher twenty-two trains were tied down & awaiting crews on the 21st including this westbound with a pair of CSX motors. The Sandhills Sub was essentially a parking lot.
BNSF 9651 & 9289 eastbound with a loaded coal train.
BNSF 6434 & 9676 lead eastbound loads through Whitman Nebraska, population 350.
An empty coal train passes the wayside signals near MP285 on the Sand Hills Sub.
An eastbound load cruises by Collins lake just west of Whitman, NE.
An ex Santa Fe SD40-2 leads a track inspection train past Collins lake just west of Whitman
